Chapter 6601: Jie Baobao’s Treasure

Chu Feng walked up to Jie Baobao with a grim expression. The body he had just reconstructed for her was disintegrating.

“Release your formation, or else you won’t be able to recover,” Chu Feng held Jie Baobao’s severed arm up to her as he said.

He was planning to reattach her severed arm, but he couldn’t do so while her formation was still active. To make things worse, the formation was accelerating the depletion of her life force.

But Jie Baobao hesitated.

“What’s in your hand? Is it more important than your life?” Chu Feng asked. He was curious to know what Jie Baobao cherished so much that she would rather die than show it to others.

“They want me dead whether I show it to them or not, so I’d rather not show them. I know my condition the best. I won’t be able to live even if I release the formation. But...”

Jie Baobao’s head had been lowered thus far, but as if having made up her mind, she raised her head to look at Chu Feng and smiled. “I am happy to have met you.”

“It’s my fault. I arrived late,” Chu Feng said, even though his arrival was only a coincidence. However, if he had arrived earlier, she wouldn’t have landed in such a plight.

His words only deepened Jie Baobao’s smile.

“I used to think that it would be great if our Mansion Master accepted a talent like you. You would have been able to fulfill your potential and rise to great heights. Now, I know I was wrong. It’s a good thing you weren’t born in the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion. The Seven Realms Sacred Mansion isn’t worthy of you.”

Jie Baobao’s voice grew increasingly weaker as she spoke, but her smile further deepened.

“Why are you so foolish? Even if you don’t want to show them your treasure, you could have just made some casual remarks about me, and they wouldn’t have a reason to hurt you. Is it worth throwing away your life to protect me?” Chu Feng asked.

He knew that Jie Baobao was siding with him out of loyalty, but he wasn’t so inflexible as to sever a friendship just because his friend said something bad about him to survive. The last thing he wanted was for his friends to die for his sake.

But Jie Baobao replied, “It’s worth it.”

Her answer was so resolute that it put Chu Feng at a loss.

“Chu Feng, there is one thing that I dearly regret.”

“What is it?”

“My mother was afflicted with a lethal poison while having me. I was also affected by it, and I should have died. It was your mother, Lord Jie Ranqing, who ignored the advice of others and used a valuable treasure to save my life. She was the reason I was born in this world.

“That was why my parents named me ‘Jie Bao[1]’. They wanted me to remember Lord Jie Ranqing’s grace, be loyal to her, and repay the debt to her in the future. But I was young and rebellious. I thought the name sounded awful, so I changed it to Jie Baobao.

“Now that I think about it, ‘Jie Bao’ actually sounds...”

Chu Feng interjected, “It sounds awful.”

Jie Baobao burst into laughter, but her eyes quickly became moist. Tears streamed down her cheeks. “I have let Lord Jie Ranqing down. I wasn’t able to serve her, and I couldn’t protect you, either. But I’m glad that I went to the Nine Heavens’ Zenith. That is my most cherished memory. Chu Feng, I am very happy to have met you...”

With that, she depleted her final bit of strength and fell into Chu Feng’s embrace. She had stopped breathing. As her life force receded, the fingers of her severed arms finally unraveled.

Even the members of the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion endured the excruciating pain they were under to look over. What they saw shocked them.

It wasn’t any special treasure or indecent object. Five pebbles rolled down her palm.

Those from the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion were baffled. They thought that it would be an invaluable treasure, even if it had nothing to do with Chu Feng, but who could have thought that it would be five ordinary pebbles?

But Chu Feng stiffened up. He recognized the pebbles. These were the cultivation resources he had acquired together with Jie Baobao. There were a total of ten of them, and he had split them with Jie Baobao.

The energy previously harnessed in these pebbles had been absorbed, making them nothing more than accessories now.

To think that this was the treasure Jie Baobao cherished!

Chu Feng was no fool. He immediately understood what was going on.

“You people really deserve to die,” Chu Feng murmured as he cast a frigid gaze at the crowd. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

In an instant, he constructed a massive formation that made the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion’s members turn pale in fright. As world spiritists, they could tell that it was a refinement formation.

Chu Feng was planning to turn them into cultivation resources!

The crowd wanted to flee, but they were unable to struggle free from Little Fishy’s oppressive might. They couldn’t escape at all.

At Chu Feng’s will, they fell into the refinement formation as if ingredients being poured into a pot. They shrieked in agony as their bodies disintegrated and their souls vaporized.

But Chu Feng’s face remained cold.

The Seven Realms Sacred Mansion had already made multiple attempts on his life, but he had held back because of his mother. Only now did he realize that he was wrong. While there were people like Ling Xiao and Jie Baobao, they numbered in the minority.

Most people in the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion didn’t deserve to live.

“Yu’er, I have to use their origin energies to save someone, so I can’t give them to you,” Chu Feng said.

“Big brother, saving someone takes priority,” Little Fishy replied.

Chu Feng channeled the energy from the refinement formation into Jie Baobao’s body, but that was far from enough to save her. He constructed another formation to properly fuse that energy with Jie Baobao.

This was a forbidden method. Even Chu Feng struggled to channel it.

Fortunately, Jie Baobao, despite having stopped breathing a moment ago, regained her breath and life force. Next, by sacrificing tens of millions of Seven Realms Sacred Mansion’s members, he managed to preserve Jie Baobao’s spirit power.

But Jie Baobao remained in hibernation. She was still in a fragile state.

Chu Feng wasn’t even sure if she could be saved. All he was doing was out of desperation.

“Big brother, someone is coming. It’s a huge group of people from the Seven Realms Sacred Mansion. Ling Xiao is among them as well. Do you want to meet them?” Little Fishy asked.

“Let them come,” Chu Feng replied.

Little Fishy released her oppressive might, allowing Ling Xiao and the others to approach.

1. ’Bao (报)’ means ‘return (favor)’ ☜